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Yeah, the album hasn't grabbed me at all. There's some reviews on amazon.co.uk saying that it's the best thing he's ever done! With Teeth was patchy at best, this one is even weaker. *Looks at The Downward Spiral and Broken* I guess we'll never see anything like those again.
I thought that With Teeth was a generally uninteresting album with three or four decent tracks at best, but I love Year Zero. The best circumstances to listen to it are with headphones all the way through in one sitting, though.* And the noisy bits (end of track 5, e.g.) were an acquired taste for me.
*A friend of mine recently said to me (when we were talking about this album!), "I can't believe you listen to albums like that! You're so old-fashioned!"
"Oh, PLEASE let him get pissed off enough to pull a Metal Machine Music type stunt for that last record. That would be awesome. :)"
That's about the only way he could be relevant again.
Though, to be fair, I listened to the album and liked it whenever I wasn't paying attention to the vocals. Then I went out and downloaded TDS, PHM, Broken, Fixed and FDTS. Further Down seems like about the best one, but all of 'em have some real crap on there. I justified downloading them because I bought all of those albums at one point or another...